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Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy

The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture official conference proceedings, Jan 10, 2021

Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy for Online Learning

Designing courses that are meaningful to diverse learners and still align them to the goals of a ... more Designing courses that are meaningful to diverse learners and still align them to the goals of a university and its general education requirements is not a mean task. This course redesign project focuses on redesigning a course that we are currently teaching and outlines the spiral-reflective process that the instructors used to conduct learner and learning needs analysis, incorporating learners' input, and course redesign phases that were adapted from Dee Fink (2013). It also includes reflections of struggles and challenges faced by both researchers. One of the researchers is an Adjunct Instructor, and the other, a full-time Instructor in higher education. Those struggles and challenges were the major motivation behind this course redesign project. The major goal for this spiral-reflective project is advancing knowledge and providing new understanding of issues related to course design and instruction for learners from diverse backgrounds. The researchers sought to understand how to introduce nonlinear approaches and a pedagogy that is integrated, using spiral and critical ways of learning into instruction within an environment of traditional Western linear methodologies of passive teaching and learning. Minority students continue to struggle to learn in higher education because the main model of instruction is based on a linear Eurocentric style of learning that does not integrate spiral or circular learning, diverse languages and codes of communication. The outcome of the study was a redesigned undergraduate college course in the African American and African Studies program at the Institute for Intercultural and Anthropological Studies.

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Konaté, Mariam. “Female Voices in Sub-Saharan African Films.”

“From ‘gewel to ‘lebkat’: The Shift of Ousmane Sembéne’s focus from Borom Sarret to Moolaade.”

The Supernatural in African Epic Traditions as a Reflection of the Religious Beliefs of African Societies

Studies in World Christianity, 2010

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Prestholdt Jeremy. Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. The California World History Library Series, xiv + 273 pp. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper

African Studies Review, 2009

Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic

Journal of Black Studies, 2007

This article is a critical analysis of the role and function of the supernatural in African epics... more This article is a critical analysis of the role and function of the supernatural in African epics. It is necessitated by the persistent misconception and misrepresentation of the African epic that argue that in the African epic, too much emphasis is put on the hero's recourse to nonhuman means rather than on his natural force, which, in a Western conceptualization, typifies heroism. Therefore, the author's main contention in this article is that the significance of the fantastic and its use as an essential element in the dramatic structure of African epics can be fully appreciated only against the cosmological background of the societies that produce those heroic tales.

Aesthetic Imprints of an Epic Memory: An Analysis of the Narrative Techniques in Selected Films from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas

Review of Makuchi’s The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy

The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture official conference proceedings, Jan 10, 2021

Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy for Online Learning

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Konaté, Mariam. “Female Voices in Sub-Saharan African Films.”

“From ‘gewel to ‘lebkat’: The Shift of Ousmane Sembéne’s focus from Borom Sarret to Moolaade.”

The Supernatural in African Epic Traditions as a Reflection of the Religious Beliefs of African Societies

Studies in World Christianity, 2010

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African Studies Review, 2009

Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic

Journal of Black Studies, 2007

Aesthetic Imprints of an Epic Memory: An Analysis of the Narrative Techniques in Selected Films from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas

Review of Makuchi’s The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

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